Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. and Master's students process down Oxford Street towards Tercentenary Theater. (Eliza Grinnell/Harvard SEAS)

Check out our images of Harvard Commencement for the Class of 2026, and find out where some students from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are going after they graduate.

I really took the opportunity to do research here during my master’s. If you have an interesting idea, you can easily find people to work with.

Ioana-Andreea Cristescu, S.M. in data science, will be joining an AI team at Amazon Web Services. “In undergrad I studied computer science and mathematics. I wanted to get more into the AI space. Harvard had a great program for that, and it naturally prompted me directly here. My classes were so meaningful, and I’ll be able to directly apply them to my job.” (Eliza Grinnell/Harvard SEAS)

Weiyue Li (left) and Yiwen Li (right), S.M. in data science. Weiyue Li will be working as a data scientist while considering Ph.D. programs. “I really took the opportunity to do research here during my master’s. I had the opportunity to work with professors from both Harvard and MIT. If you have an interesting idea, you can easily find people to work with.” Yiwen Li will be working in industry after graduation. “The connections within my cohort, I felt like everybody knew exactly what they wanted to do right now, and what they plan to do in the future.” (Eliza Grinnell/Harvard SEAS)